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List:       alpine-info
Subject:    Re: [Alpine-info] Alpine display problem
From:       Mike Miller <mbmiller () taxa ! epi ! umn ! edu>
Date:       2008-06-25 3:09:23
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.60.0806242204080.19164 () taxa ! epi ! umn ! edu
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>> And, as far as I'm aware, the topic of this conversation (unselect by ':'
>> triggers zoom when all messages are selected) is the only time ':'-selection
>> auto-zooms.
>
> I guess it's not technically "auto-zoom" (I think a different response
> which I don't have anymore clarified this).  But I think the real issue
> that the original poster is having is simply the fact that :
> makes messages *disappear*.
>
> This happens in two cases:
> 1) you are NOT zoomed, and all messages are selected
> 2) you ARE zoomed into a selection with any number of messages selected
>
> Even for case #2, I can see it being sort of confusing sometimes that 
> messages disappear.
>
> If I manually selected 10 messages and got into a situation of showing 
> only those messages (whichever way that happened), it seems to me it is 
> arguably a useful option (and maybe even the default) for messages not 
> to disappear in this case.  If you manually unselect items, then you 
> would simply have a list of 10 items, some selected and some unselected.
>
> That would solve the "auto-repeat key" problem.


I like your idea.  Sometimes I hit ":" accidentally when in a zoomed 
index.  This is problematic because if I then unzoom I might be nowhere 
near to the missing message in the full index.  It would be better if I 
could have a kind of mixed zoom where I unselect a message, which unbolds 
it, but the message remains visible in the index.

Mike
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